We write of what we know, but a large part of our local culture-not all but a large part-tends to lose its significance in transposition. - Shulamith Hareven

The Hittite woman would not give up. Each time Salu came, she clutched desperately at the threads of his life as if at a garment she could pull him by. (p 171)

They were born without, and I was quibbling over a housecoat.

The peace must not be seen as a peace of industrialists and yuppies; it must not be seen as a peace between people in suits who have Philippine maids, on the backs of, and over the heads of those who are referred to too clinically as the “lower tenth percentiles”—in simple Hebrew, the have-nots.